I ride rubberbands.... literaly...

[Burn535i]

i'm sure if you let falken know about this... they'll give you free tires for life... haha. that sucks though, how did you get it home?

I don't know though, they would probably try some recommended tire size per wheel size bullshit excuse if you tried to take recourse. That's just my opinion though.

[tmoney]

dunlop direzza star specs or the dz101 i my choice. they are some sturdy tires.

and ive heard good things about the nitto neo gen's.

bfg sports are also a good tire thats priced pretty well

[zacman]

WTF happened... i hope the wheel is still useable....

+1!!!!

Falkens in all my experience are crap. I will probably never use anything except Toyo or Kuhmo.

[BreakMyWallet]

dunlop direzza star specs or the dz101 i my choice. they are some sturdy tires.

and ive heard good things about the nitto neo gen's.

neogens are garbage. okay for stretch and great for camber. but any type of performance is thrown out the window an theyre scary to drive on

+1!!!!

Falkens in all my experience are crap. I will probably never use anything except Toyo or Kuhmo.

kumho is absolute shit.

anyway. ive ran many 452 tires with no problems. it was prob an inflation problem jason. glad your bro is cool tho

[tmoney]

neogens are garbage. okay for stretch and great for camber. but any type of performance is thrown out the window an theyre scary to drive on



kumho is absolute shit.

anyway. ive ran many 452 tires with no problems. it was prob an inflation problem jason. glad your bro is cool tho

people who blow tires from stretching usually ALWAYS have an inflation problem.

sideway heats up past op temp, wears out the chords on the inside of the sidewall and then catastrophic failure like seen above. Glad the car and you brother are alright.

[BreakMyWallet]

word^

[Checho]

damn bro that really sucks, the LM doesn't seem to be in too bad of a condition though.

[morgan@gillismotorsports]

ahhh man that is no good. you wouldn't think that stretch would put much of a strain

[HKSpeed]

people who blow tires from stretching usually ALWAYS have an inflation problem.

sideway heats up past op temp, wears out the chords on the inside of the sidewall and then catastrophic failure like seen above. Glad the car and you brother are alright.

is typically from under inflation? if so how low?

is 215/35/19 on 19x8.5 an aggressive stretch? i dont have any exp with 19s.

[l!zerd]

O_O

[Geoff.T]

Lets be real here...

Your brother had to have been driving on a flat for a while for the tire to come apart like that. A good tire will stay beaded even though its out of air. It looks like your brother drove on the flat long enough for the wheels to cut the side walls off.

I run stretched FK452s on the street and RT615s on the track. I've never had an issue that was caused by the tires. I think its safe to say I'm a little harder on tires too.


That being said, no matter what tires are on your car keep a close eye on your tire pressure.

[Rally]

I'm with him^^ I've been running stretched falkens for years. That looks like a definite result of riding around on a flat or low pressure for a while. I had to limp home on a flat one day because the wheel wasn't holding air any longer. I figured I had done some damage to the tire, so I took it off to investigate. I found that the sidewall had torn about an inch right where yours had. Stretched or not (mine was a 205 on a 7), riding around with a low tire pressure or flat tire can do damage to the sidewall quite quickly regardless of what brand the tire is.

Glad you're ok. Sorry to hear about the incident

[tmoney]

is typically from under inflation? if so how low?

is 215/35/19 on 19x8.5 an aggressive stretch? i dont have any exp with 19s.

usually 20PSI or less. if its flat, then it will happen VERY quickly. I worked in a tire shop, and used to do the stretching for all my friends and local forum dudes. its a lot harder to tell when a stretched tire isn't properly inflated. its not a super aggressive stretch but it is still a decent one.
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[Hartgeh27]

Well damn. I had this happen to me many yrs ago running falken 451's.
I was passing someone on the autobahn at about 135mph hit some road trash. Tire looked just like op's before i even realized it was flat. I pulled over changed the wheel. My wheel ended up being ok.

[junjdm]

damn! thats crazy..the rims look ok from the pics..........